Question of whether the difficulties faced by young adults “were… due to beingĪdolescent or to being adolescent in America?” (pg 129). That even supposedly universal rules are culturally specific, and to answer the This is not true, so that she can disprove Freud. Mead seeks out a culture, any culture, where Young adults are emotionally turbulent by nature, due to the hormonal and Many teachers, parents, and therapists of adolescents will state that Freudian theory states thatĪdolescence is an unstable time due to biology, an idea that is still popular Significantly less strenuous than to prove it. The work required to disprove a theory is Indeed, she was searching for one example Mead’s research has come under fire of criticism, stating that she may have The goal was to demonstrate thatĬulture is relative, rather than concrete. In Samoa under the instruction of Franz Boas.
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